ISA Ireland Section

 19:30 Wednesday 8th February 2012 Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork.

Registration on the night. All are welcome, you don’t need to be an ISA member to attend Feel free to bring a colleague.

PROFILE OF SPEAKERS:

Mr Andre Michel Skillpad, Quebec, Canada

Andre Michel has 25 years of successful automation project delivery in a wide variety of industries on projects of all scales. His Experience includes:

• Management of preliminary design, detail engineering, construction, commissioning and start-up of projects in many industries

• Application of project management methodology, tools and techniques for the management of automation projects

• Coordination of multi-discipline teams

• Specification, evaluation, selection and purchase of automation equipment

• Specification, installation and programming of distributed control system (DCS), PLC, instruments, control elements (including electrical or pneumatic  equipment).

• Pharmaceutical experience with FDA regulation, GMP, GAMP 5, CFR 21 Part 11 and Validation

Andre has been a member of ISA since 2001 and has been active at the Section, Dis- trict, Division and Society level of the ISA. Andre is currently the President-Elect of the ISA Montreal Section, where he has held roles of Secretary and Professional Devel- opment Chair. In these roles Andre has developed partnerships with REAI (the organi- zation of Automation Manufacturers in Quebec) and RVA (Rendez Vous of Automa- tion). At a District level Andre has held the role of Leadership Development Chair and participated and presented at the 2011 District Leadership Conference in Toronto and 2010 District Leadership Conference in Montreal. Within the Food and Pharmaceutical Division (FPID) of ISA, Andre has been very active helping to develop and roll out a program of web-based seminars on Pharmaceutical Automation while also being the Newsletter Editor for the last 4 years.

Monday 12 March 2012 1.30pm Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork

SPEAKERS

Gert Mølgaard— NNE Pharmaplan
Gillian Miller – Pfizer
Brian Nolan – Schering Plough
David Gibson—GlaxoSmithKline

 

David O’Brien and John Shaw

The slides from the talk can be downloaded here.

The CIT Faculty of Engineering & Science Annual Awards 2010 took place on the Friday the 8th April 2011. The ISA Ireland Section has been a sponsor of the best first year in Applied Physics and Instrumentation for the past number of years. This year Mr. David O’Brien (ISA Ireland Section President) attended the awards and presented the recipient Mr. Brian Duggan with a silver medallion.

Photograph (L-R) Michael Loftus (Head, Fuculty of Engineering & Science CIT), David O'Brien (President - ISA Ireland Section), Brian Duggan (Award Recipient), Dr. Liam Mc Donell (Department. Head, Applied Physics and Instrumentation)

I hereby inform you that Kevin Dignam who served as ISA District 12 Vice
President in 2009 and 2010 is the new Nominator for our district.

Kevin Dignam’s term of office as D12 Nominator will cover the years 2011 and
2012. It is the duty of all the 14 District Nominators to attend one ISA
Leaders Meeting each year, namely the Summer Leaders Meeting (SLM). The
2011 meeting will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 25 – 28 June and during
this time the Nominating Committee will meet and thus select the new officers
of the society.

Kevin’s first duty as D12 Nominator will be to work with Dianna Noyes, ISA
staff member and organise an election for a DVP-elect. We need to keep the
leadership pipeline full and elect a successor to our current DVP, Jean-Pierre
HAUET. As a matter of fact, eleven of the fourteen ISA Districts have an elect
in place at this stage, hence we are one of the three districts which does not
have a DVP-elect at the moment.

I trust you will congratulate Kevin and wish him well in serving the district in
this important portfolio.

Regards,

Billy Walsh

Brian Curtis received an ISA Distinguished Society Service (DSS) Award for 2010. This is a great honour for Brian and the Ireland Section. A total of four DSS Awards were given out this year by ISA. Gianfranca Sanzeni of the Italy section received a DSS Award and hence two awards went to District 12. The awards were presented in the Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA on Monday, 4 October during the H&A banquet. Brian attended with his wife Irene and four of their friends. K. Dignam, E. O’Riain, B. Walsh and D. O’Brien attended the H&A banquet as well in Houston.

More pictures from the event can be found here (http://www NULL.isa NULL.org/graphics/honors-awards/2010/Photo-Gallery/index_11 NULL.htm ).